Emergency personnel searching for people trapped in the collapsed Canterbury Television Building on Madras Street. Smoke can be seen rising from the ruins.
Emergency personnel searching for people trapped in the collapsed Canterbury Television Building on Madras Street. Smoke can be seen rising from the ruins.
Building rubble from part of the Terrace on the Park apartment complex. Two buildings in the complex required urgent demolition, and the other buildings in the complex will eventually be demolished.
The badly-damaged Strategy building on Victoria Street. The outer walls on the bottom two stories have collapsed into the building below.
The site of a demolished building on the corner of Bealey Avenue and Victoria Street where steel has been laid for the foundations of a new building.
Damage to the Kenton Chambers building. Diagonal cracking between the windows shows that the building has suffered major structural damage.
Damage to a building on Manchester Street. The large diagonal cracks between the windows indicate the building has suffered serious structural damage.
The demolition of an apartment building on Peterborough Street. A long-reach excavator is being used to tear the building down.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Former Government Life building on the left, Cathedral Square".
The C.F. Cotter & Co building stands alone, with the buildings on either side having been demolished. A sign on the building reads "Buy me don't bowl me!
Building rubble from part of the Terrace on the Park apartment complex. Two buildings in the complex required urgent demolition, and the other buildings in the complex will eventually be demolished.
The C.F. Cotter & Co building on High Street. Security fencing has been placed around the building to restrict access. Weeds are growing on the vacant construction lot next to the building.
Damage to the Kenton Chambers building. Diagonal cracking between the windows shows that the building has suffered major structural damage.
Emergency personnel lifting a metal beam from the ruins of the Canterbury Television Building on Madras Street during their search for trapped people.
An entry from Roz Johnson's blog for 5 August 2013 entitled, "Colourful Canterbury Brewery Building Going".
Page 4 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Wednesday 6 April 2011.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Westpac Bank (left), Grant Thornton building (white right of the Westpac in the distance), ANZ Bank (white with vertical stripes below the Grant Thornton), and Holiday Inn (right) all under demolition".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "This building labelled Poplar Crescent was one of a group of buildings paid for by Thomas Edmonds and was initially used to store band instruments when the Edmonds Rotunda was used for band concerts. Cambridge Terrace".
A photograph taken from the top of the BNZ building. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The MFL Building has reached a very ugly stage of demolition. It is the last building standing on the corner of Gloucester and Colombo Streets".
A video of Dr Ann McEwan, architectural historian and heritage consultant, talking about the architectural details and significance of heritage buildings in Christchurch. The video includes discussion of the Provincial Chambers buildings, the MedLab building, and Eliza's Manor.
A photograph of a model of a WikiHouse building on display in the CPSA building at CPIT. A demonstration and hands-on building workshop, titled Go Ahead... Make Your Space, was held at CPIT as part of FESTA 2013.
A photograph of the base pieces of a WikiHouse building in the CPSA building at CPIT. A demonstration and hands-on building workshop, titled Go Ahead... Make Your Space, was held at CPIT as part of FESTA 2013.
A photograph taken from a cleared site between Struthers Lane and Lichfield Street, of damaged buildings and vacant building sites across the road on Lichfield Street. In the distance are High Street buildings and the old Post Office building (now housing C1 Espresso).
A photograph of the Brannigans Building on the corner of Gloucester Street and Oxford Terrace. Broken glass litters the footpath in front of the building. An excavator is parked in front. Emergency tape has been draped around the building as a cordon.
A photograph looking south down Manchester Street from the intersection of Gloucester Street. Bricks from an earthquake-damaged building cover the footpath. Wire fences have been placed around the building as a cordon. The SBS building can be seen in the distance.
A damaged building on Riccarton Road near Deans Avenue. The front wall of the building has crumbled onto the footpath in front. Wire fencing and road cones have been placed around the building as a cordon. Flowers on the fence suggest that somebody lost their life in this building.
A photograph taken from a cleared site between Struthers Lane and Lichfield Street, of damaged buildings and vacant building sites across the road on Lichfield Street. High Street buildings and the old Post Office building (now housing C1 Espresso) can be seen in the distance.
A photograph taken from a cleared site between Struthers Lane and Lichfield Street, of damaged buildings and vacant building sites across the road on Lichfield Street. In the distance are High Street buildings and the old Post Office building (now housing C1 Espresso).
A photograph of Julia Holden's painting 'Blue Building' displayed on a billboard in Auckland.
A photograph of Julia Holden's painting 'Blue Building' displayed on a billboard in Auckland.